Abraham Lincoln Quotes

All across America, we gather this week with the people we love to give thanks to God for the blessings in our lives.

Now therefore I do recommend and assign Thursday the 26th day of November next to be devoted by the People of these States to the service of that great and glorious Being, who is the beneficent Author of all the good that was, that is, or that will be.

On Thanksgiving we do just everything except give thanks. We eat, we watch football, we have a good time with family. Almost nobody gives thanks to God at Thanksgiving, unless there's a short prayer before we eat.

If you think Independence Day is America's defining holiday, think again. Thanksgiving deserves that title, hands-down.

There is one day that is ours. Thanksgiving Day is the one day that is purely American.

Perhaps no custom reveals our character as a Nation so clearly as our celebration of Thanksgiving Day.

Thanksgiving Day is a day devoted by persons with inflammatory rheumatism to thanking a loving Father that it is not hydrophobia.

I love Thanksgiving. In Canada, we don't really have a lot of history with Thanksgiving, and it's a holiday devoted to food, and that warms the cockles of my being.

Thanksgiving is a time when the world gets to see just how blessed and how workable the Christian system is. The emphasis is not on giving or buying, but on being thankful and expressing that appreciation to God and to one another.

I'm from Canada, so Thanksgiving to me is just Thursday with more food. And I'm thankful for that.

The Arms of the United States of America having been blessed in the present Campaign with remarkable Success, Congress have Resolved to recommend that one day, Thursday the 18th December next be Set apart to be observed by all Inhabitants throughout these States for a General thanksgiving to Almighty God…

Thanksgiving is America's favorite holiday because it's a time when we put aside our cares, much as the struggling Pilgrims did nearly four centuries ago, and eat a gut-busting meal without worrying about the 'out years.'

We ought to make the moments notes Of happy glad Thanksgiving; The hours and days, a silent praise Of music we are living.

I am very glad indeed to see you to-night, and yet I will not say I thank you for this call, but I do most sincerely thank Almighty God for the occasion on which you have called.

Thanksgiving day. Let us all give humble, hearty, and sincere thanks now, but the turkeys.

What we're really talking about is a wonderful day set aside on the fourth Thursday of November when no one diets. I mean, why else would they call it Thanksgiving?

North Carolina was where you could have Thanksgiving and feel like it was Thanksgiving.

These are hallowed moments, when every American has reason to express his gratitude to Almighty God that it has been our good fortune to witness the light of this auspicious morn.

Fill the earth with your songs of gratitude.

Every Thanksgiving, we all write down three things we're thankful for and put them in a hat. Then we pass the hat around the dinner table and everyone has to guess who wrote what!

To give thanks in solitude is enough. Thanksgiving has wings and goes where it must go. Your prayer knows much more about it than you do.

You pray in your distress and in your need; would that you might also pray in the fullness of your joy and in your days of abundance.

Thanksgiving is America's favourite holiday, and a brilliant piece of personal as well as patriotic calendrical invention.

Every Thanksgiving, for the most part in my life, I've come to Deerfield in Chicago.

It's an honor to play in a Thanksgiving Day game and bring excitement to the entire country.